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1-1 Section 1. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general

1-2 fund to the Department of Education the sum of $500,000 for distribution

1-3 to school districts for programs designed to identify and develop candidates

1-4 for licensed educational personnel positions which are in areas of high

1-5 need. The money appropriated may be used to pay the costs of, without

1-6 limitition:

1-7 (a) Tuition and books for participants in programs to prepare

1-8 instructional aides and support staff to become teachers;

1-9 (b) Stipends for mentor teachers;

1-10 (c) Special developmental internal programs designed as alternatives to

1-11 standard requirements for licensing candidates;

1-12 (d) Out-of-state participants who agree to serve their practicums in this

1-13 state in the areas of speech pathology, psychology and self-contained

1-14 special education programs; and

2-1 (e) Future teachers’ organizations in middle and high schools.

2-2 2. The money appropriated by subsection 1 must be distributed to

2-3 school districts in the same percentage as the proportion of pupils in each

2-4 school district bears to the total number of pupils in this state, determined

2-5 from the official count taken from the previous school year.

2-6 Sec. 2. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by section 1

2-7 of this act must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 2001, and

2-8 reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of money

2-9 committed have been made.

2-10 Sec. 3. This act becomes effective on July 1, 1999.